THE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Yo-YoMa Cellist
PATRICIA ZANDER, Pianist
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1984, AT 8:30 HILL AUDITORIUM, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
PROGRAM
Suite Italienne ...... STRAVINSKY Introduzione Gavotta con due variazioni Serenata Scherzino Tarantella Minuctto c Finale Suite No. 5 in C minor for unaccompanied cello ...... BACH Prelude Sarabande Allemande Gavottes I and II Courante Gigue
INTERMISSION
Sonata in A major ...... FRANCK Allegretto ben moderate Allegro Recitativo: fantasia Allegretto poco mosso Elegie, Op. 24 ...... FAURE Papillon, Op. 77 ...... FAURE Melody ...... TCHAIKOVSKY Moses Fantasy ...... PAGANINI
CBS Mastmvorks, RCA, Deutsche Grammophon, and Lyrita Records. Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith has generously provided funds to defray the printing costs of this concert program, the last in the 1983-84 Choral Union Scries.
Forty-fifth Concert of the 105th Season 105th Annual Choral Union Series About the Artist Since winning the coveted A very Fisher Prize in 1978, Yo-Yo Ma has been acclaimed world wide. He has appeared with major orchestras throughout the world, including the Berlin, Israel, and New York Philharmonics and the Boston, Chicago, and London Symphonies, working with such eminent conductors as Claudio Abbado, Sergiu Comissiona, Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, and Andrc Previn. His national and international tours also include solo recitals as well as chamber music appearances with such artists as Leonard Rose, Pinchas Zukerman, Gidon Kremer, Yehudi Menuhin and, most recently, his outstanding collaborations with pianist Emanuel Ax. Yo-Yo Ma plays frequently each season in New York to sold-out houses. Performances of his favored Bach Cello Suites (solo) and Suites for gamba and harpsichord with Kenneth Cooper in a series of recitals at Alice Tully Hall highlighted his 1981-82 season. In the spring of 1982 he was invited to perform with the London Symphony Orchestra at the newly-opened Barbican Hall with Queen Elizabeth in attendance. During the 1982-83 season he toured Europe with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta, performing the Brahms Double Concerto with Gidon Kremer. Other European tours included appearances with the Conccrtgcbouw, Berlin Philharmonic, London Philharmonia, and the Stockholm Symphony, and a series of recitals in London, Munich, and Berlin, where he performed the Bach Suites. This season, Mr. Ma's schedule includes appearances with the Detroit Symphony, London Symphony, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, and Toronto Symphony, and a tour of the Far East. He also tours throughout the United States in a trio configuration with Emanuel Ax and violinist Young-Uck Kim. Mr. Ma's debut recording was on Deutsche Grammophon with the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. Under his CBS Mastcrworks contract, Mr. Ma recorded concerti by Haydn, Saint-Sacns, and Lalo, Beethoven Sonatas for piano and cello with Emanuel Ax, his own transcrip tions of the Paganini/Kreisler violin caprices, and the Bach Sonatas for viola da gamba and harp sichord with Kenneth Cooper. His newest releases include Bach's six Suites for unaccompanied cello and the Shostakovich and Kabalevsky cello concerti with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy. He and Emanuel Ax have just recorded the Brahms Sonatas for piano and cello on a newly-released RCA disc. Born in Paris in 1955 of Chinese parents, Yo-Yo Ma began his cello studies with his father at the age of four, and gave his first public recital at age five. Later, he studied withjanos Scholz and in 1962 he entered The Juilliard School and began studies with Leonard Rose. A graduate of Harvard University, Mr. Ma reads, speaks, and writes French and Chinese, in addition to devoting time to composition. The instrument he plays is a Montagnana from Venice, made in 1733. Mr. Ma made his Ann Arbor debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy at the 1982 May Festival. He returns this evening, in recital.
ORPHEUS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE ...... Fri. Apr. 13 J. C. Bach: Sinfonia in B-flat; Mozart: Bassoon Concerto, K. 191 (Fank Morelli); Schoenberg: Verklartc Nacht, Op. 4; Bartok: Rumanian Dances MAY FESTIVAL ...... Wed.-Sat. Apr. 25-28 In Eugene Ormandy's absence from the Festival, Aldo Ccccato will conduct on Wednesday and William Smith on Saturday; both concerts are sold out. Tickets still remain for Thursday and Friday, from $9 to $21.
Just announced! Ann Arbor Summer Festival, 1984 Premiere Season: June 30 -July 24, on the U-M campus Mime Music ' Dance Theatre Marcel Marceau, Sherrill Milnes, Edward Villella, Claire Bloom, and many other artists and performing groups . . . plus lectures, films, master classes, and alumni activities Free brochure available from University Musical Society, Professional Theatre Program, School of Music, and at various campus and city locations.
To be announced April 9: A New Season of International Presentations, 1984-85 Symphony orchestras from America and abroad, solo recitalists, chamber groups, ballet, chorus and opera . . . Watch for new brochure!
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